The term "brass" is commonly understood to mean an alloy of copper and zinc.

These kettles and frying pans and ladles are made of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.

Bronze Age The discovery of bronze, an Cycladic alloy of copper and tin, marble idols boosts trade and handicrafts.

Bells have been made of various metals, but the best have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and tin.

The Company's Tutenague and Tutenage, occasionally confounded with Tutty, was the so-called 'Chinese Copper,' an alloy of copper, zinc, and iron, brought from China.

I said that deceit was a necessary alloy for truth which, without this hardening addition, like gold without an alloy of copper, would be unworkable.

An alloy of copper and nickel containing a small percentage of aluminum, called Hercules metal, withstood a strain of 105,000 pounds, and broke without elongation.

They're all brasses; alloys of copper and zinc, with a little lead and tin in some.

Such results show beyond contradiction the great interest there is in economically producing alloys of copper, manganese, tin, zinc, etc.

This is so when gold and silver are alloyed with each other, and is true in the case of alloys of copper.

"We might make an alloy of copper and zinc."

"Aluminium with an alloy of copper?"